Question Looking for alternatives to the Solidigm™ P41 Plus Series 1TB SSD ?

[falconsiege]

I am doing a budget AMD build with a Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz , Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2, Teamgroup T-Force Vulcan Z 32 GB DDR4 (2 x 16) and a Cosair RM750e 750 W 80+ Gold Cert PSU. I have everything but the SSD. I put this together part wise over a year ago but a lot of things in life have happened and I never got the chance to put it together. As I said, I have everything except the SSD and back when I was putting it together the Solidigm™ P41 Plus Series 1TB PCIe GEN 4 NVMe 4.0 x4 M.2 2280 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive (M.2 80mm, PCIe 4.0 x4) SSDPFKNU010TZX1 was suggested. I was wondering if there were any other alternatives to this SSD. I noticed it went up in price over the last few years (it was around $90 but it's now around $119 ish). It's not really the money, I just have some reserves about Solidgm as a company. I was noticing a WD_Black that was similar. Does anyone have any other suggestions?

I should have put this in "Storage". I am very sorry about that mods. 🙁

 

[Lafong]

What might drive you from choice A to choice B?

A spec sheet?

TBW?

Cache?

Full scale favorable reviews?

Price more than anything?

Good or bad personal experiences by random people on the Internet?

Barring premature failure, there's a pretty good chance you'd never notice the difference between the more frequently mentioned candidates.

Do you have any peculiar/unusual requirements? Moving big files around a lot? Between drives?

Of course, you'd like to know which are more likely to fail prematurely or have quality control issues generally, but I'd be skeptical about learning much on that....unless you can find repeated allegations of design flaws. That happens occasionally.

As far as I know, Solidigm is still a good choice, but they may have newer models that might be pertinent. I haven't kept up with them.

 

[falconsiege]

Thanks for your reply. I'm a casual gamer so to be honest decent performance and reliability is what would drive me from A to B. Being a budget build, Price would be a third, but distant drive seeing as how I have everything I need except for the drive.

Without being political I wasn't happy about how Solidigm came about, but when dealing with components your options are very, very slim.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I am doing a budget AMD build with a

Ryzen 5 5600X 3.7 GHz ,​

Gigabyte B550 AORUS ELITE AX V2,​

Teamgroup T-Force Vulcan Z 32 GB DDR4 (2 x 16) and a​

Cosair RM750e 750 W 80+ Gold Cert PSU.​

I have everything but the SSD.

Your system also lacks a discrete graphics card. Without graphics card it will not work.
Ryzen 5 5600X doesn't have integrated GPU in it.

 

[falconsiege]

Your system also lacks a discrete graphics card. Without graphics card it will not work.
Ryzen 5 5600X doesn't have integrated GPU in it.

Oh, I have a card. Don't laugh, but it's a 1050 TI. I know, bottlenecking. But, it was a card I got years ago and didn't have the budget for an additional card. It was going to be an upgrade later kind of deal.

 

[Lafong]

I'd probably look for a gen 4 NVME drive from WD or Samsung or maybe Crucial within your acceptable price range....mid level. Not newer than gen 4. Probably with some cache. Not all have cache. Mine (WD SN770) does not have cache, but I don't miss it. I paid 34 dollars for a 500 GB model 2 or 3 years ago.

The price/performance ratio is an issue. You pay a lot more for upper price range drives, with little observable performance increase.

I wouldn't have any particular qualms about Solidigm, but why bother with them if you have issues about how they came about...an Intel connection as I recall?

 

[falconsiege]

It may seem silly, but I was not happy an American company selling off its SSD division to a Chinese company. I know, everything is virtually made there anyways these days, but it just made me feel .... funny. If that makes any since. It probably doesn't considering a good deal of intel components are chinese made right? AMD too. Anyways, thats the reason. I hope I don't step on toes.

 

[LOGAN54321]

Right now, i would go for this, but it might end pretty soon.
Storage: Crucial T500 2 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($109.99 @ Amazon)
I think it's a good price for 2TB high performance ssd.

and to get an idea, some 1TB
PCPartPicker Part List
Storage: Klevv CRAS C910 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($54.99 @ Amazon)
Storage: Crucial T500 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($78.01 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 990 EVO 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 5.0 X2 NVME Solid State Drive ($59.99 @ B&H)
Storage: Western Digital WD Blue SN5000 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 4.0 X4 NVME Solid State Drive ($59.79 @ Amazon)
Storage: Samsung 990 EVO Plus 1 TB M.2-2280 PCIe 5.0 X2 NVME Solid State Drive ($74.98 @ Amazon)